| Intro | Kenyan journalist |
| Is | Journalist |
| From | South Africa |
| Type | Journalism |
| Gender | female |
Kui Kinyanjui is a business reporter with Kenya’s leading newspaper Business Daily, reporting on the information, communication and technology beat.
Biography
Kinyanjui was born and raised in Kenya, attending school in the country until high school, when she moved to the United States to attend the Madeira School. She then went on to study journalism at Fordham University.
Kinyanjui’s formal career began in 2000, when she bagen to freelance for a selection of international titles. In 2001, she worked for Kenya’s oldest business journal known as the Executive, where she rose from the position of editorial assistant to become a regular writer for the monthly publication. Later that year, she moved to PC World East Africa, where she rose to the position of Editor, reporting on technology in the East African region. Her work there also included conducting Public Relations work for brands such as Toshiba and Gateway. Once the owners of the magazine made a decision to fold the publication, Kinyanjui embarked on forming her own start-up to continue publishing the magazine, which is the regional version of PC World, and IDG publication.
Kinyanjui then moved to the world of public relations, working for Oglivy and Mather’s Nairobi office where she crafted the communication strategy for several blue chip companies. Kinyanjui was among the founding journalists that formed Nation Media Group’s “Business Daily” in 2006. Writing exclusively on the region’s fast growing ICT sector for Kenya’s first daily business newspaper, Kinyanjui has built significant goodwill for the industry. Based out of Nation Media Group’s Nairobi bureau, Kinyanjui now edits a standalone pullout known as Digital Business in the paper, indicative of the growing interest in the sector by the paper’s readers.
Business Daily won the Diageo Award for business reporting in 2008.